A chemically fuelled self-replicator

Understanding how simple chemical mixtures transition into truly emergent systems is essential to create new lifelike materials. Here, the authors show a self-replicating system that can be maintained out-of-equilibrium by an oxidant fuel in analogy to simple metabolic cycles.

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Main Authors: Sarah M. Morrow, Ignacio Colomer, Stephen P. Fletcher
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/5f7a4f7949e34b9b9683e05996007b83
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